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Corpolitick 2.2 - The Game of Organizational Dominance(TM)(R)(C)

In the not-too-distant future, power is forged, wielded, shattered, reforged, sharpened, wielded again, broken again, and hung on the wall as a Relic of Mystery by Organizations, ranging from tiny partnerships to mammoth multicontinent corporations, from strange clans to stranger nonprofit NGOs, from Amalgamated Marketing Marketing ("We only sell salesmen who sell salesmen") to PhytoCarn Products ("Animal-based health food for plants") to Geeks'R'Us to Walt-You-Will-Have-Fun-Corporate-World.

Corpolitick is a turn-based strategy game with a humor-cyberpunk feel about to start running at M*U*S*H (mush.pennmush.org 4201). This will be the third run of Corpolitick 2, and features new actions (bribes and takeovers), and other new features (money markets, directors). Like Corpolitick 2.1, 2.2 will feature 4-7 turns per week for an exciting game.

Full game rules at http://mush.pennmush.org/corpolitick (or via the 'chelp' command on M*U*S*H). Create yourself a M*U*S*H character and conglomerate to the death!

Blood of Dragons is set in the low-magic, medieval-inspired fantasy world of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. Knowledge of the books is not required for players with some MU*ing experience, though it is definitely helpful.

The game takes place 140 years prior to the start of the first book, A Game of Thrones. The end of King Daeron's campaign in Dorne is fast approaching, and this weekend Blood of Dragons MUSH will be hosting two high-profile events that constitute the climax of the Conquest of Dorne:

*Saturday 20th of February at 11.00 Central Time: The Dornish army appears and its commanders present themselves in submission to King Daeron.

*Sunday 21st of February at 10.00 Central Time: The aftermath of the Dornish surrender, as the king's knights receive their just desserts for their valor.

New players can get into these events by picking up a previously CGed character (this is the fastest option) or by CGing a character themselves (approvals will be done as quickly as possible).

Address: bod.westeros.org: 3000
Webpage: http://www.westeros.org/BoD/
Forum: http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showforum=16

I'm a system admin who is hosting three seperate mushes on a win32 precompiled environment. Until know I've started them off using a batch file that one of the mush owners made. It basically does this:

"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 1\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 2\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
"c:\Program Files\mushes\game 3\pennmush\game\"pennmush /run
cmd

I would like to set this up to run as a service. I tried to use the out of the box windows service installer option for pennmush. The first game would work, but the other two would give an error. How can I set these up to run as a service so when the server reboots after a patch I don't need to login?

I'm the server administrator for three small pennmush communities. I've hosted them on a spare box for years now. One of the admins came to me after having lost his god username and password. How do I locate and recover these?

I'm an experienced system admin with little knowledge of pennmush's inner workings. I just run the darn thing. I would like to pick this up but the documentation is too geared to a unix user. I'm running the precompiled win32 binaries. Step by step instructions that don't assume knowledge of pennmush jargon would be greatly appreciated.

Pleased to report that I've just run my highest altitude MUSH. 35,000 feet, over Pennsylvania, thanks to American Airlines in-flight wifi, a win32 penn binary, and the power of reverse ssh tunneling.

Hi community.

I currently manage and pay for 4 websites and one mush. I think I probably pay about $400.00 a year for all of these services combined.

I like these services because someone else takes care of support, security, and patching. I don't like these services because I lose some flexibility.

In the last year or so, virtual private servers have gained some traction - it looks like a year on a vps server with 512 RAM would cost me $240.00 (and my time). I liked the idea of dedicated servers, but they are waaaay out of my price range.

None of my 4 sites garner much attention - I get about 400 unique hits a day on my blog, but that is it. I probably have about 40 gigs worth of data.

I like the idea of consolidating my websites. I can't self-host because I rent an apartment and don't have a spare machine. Does anyone out there have experience working with VPS? Drawbacks? Advantages?

I appreciate any feedback, and I would be happy to offer additional details if that would help.

Thank you and warmly,

Boris

Because at some level, all text-based games are related, I thought it appropriate to share this link with the community.

http://nickm.com/post/2010/01/a-note-on-the-word-zork/

From the article:

The lowdown on Zork’s name, inasmuch as a lowdown has been provided in print, was given by authors Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, and Tim Anderson in 1979 in the article “Zork: A Computerized Fantasy Simulation Game,” Computer 12:4, 51-59 (April 1979):

The first version of Zork appeared in June 1977. Interestingly enough, it was never “announced” or “installed” for use, and the name was chosen because it was a widely used nonsense word, like “foobar.”

This is a clear explanation, but it raises the question of how this particular nonsense word came into wide use at MIT. It seems reasonable to pursue this question, and reasonable that there would be some discernable answer. After all, there’s a whole official document, RFC 3092, explaining the etymology of “foobar.” It could be interesting to know what sort of nonsense word “zork” is, since it’s quite a different thing, with very different resonances, to borrow a “nonsense” term from Edward Lear or Lewis Carroll as opposed to Hugo Ball or Tristan Tzara. “Zork,” of course, doesn’t seem to derive from either humorous English nonsense poetry or Dada; the possibilities for its origins are more complex.

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